Westinghouse on welfare

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China, nuclear technology, and a US sale
by Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor 5/30/7
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070530/ts_csm/areactors_1
China has its heart set on buying a cutting-edge US design for a nuclear-power reactor, and the Bush administration has said it is willing to sell because the transaction will mean jobs for Americans and pave the way for a "nuclear [power] renaissance in the US."
But critics of the mammoth $5 billion-plus sale are raising concerns that China might not use the advanced technology strictly for peaceful purposes...Westinghouse Electric Co. is expected within weeks to apply for up to $5 billion in loans from the US Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of the reactors to China...
If approved, the deal would be the largest by far in the history of the bank, a taxpayer-supported entity charged with creating and sustaining jobs by financing sales of US goods to international buyers...
Should US taxpayers be financing a multibillion-dollar loan to China...?
What do the taxpayers, who by some estimates contributed at least $300 million to Westinghouse Electric's advanced reactor design, get out of the deal...?...
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Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
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http://justvision.org
http://encounterpoint.com/who/index.php
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Middle East Peace Forum of Pittsburgh
http://mepfp.org
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Strengthening Domestic Fair Trade
by Sarah Rich 5/28/7
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006773.html
http://equalexchange.com
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Community Partners Institute
http://communitypartner.org
http://denyscandy.com
http://findtherivers.org/index2.htm
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http://silentspring.org
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http://pittsburghvetstour.org
http://akamat.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/911-coincidences-in-3-parts
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From:
Conferees soften contracting language in wartime funding bill
by Peter Cohn 4/19/7
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/041907cdpm1.htm
"...We got 126,000 contractors over there, some of them making more than the secretary of Defense. How in the hell do you justify that?"
~John Murtha
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International Council on Clean Transportation
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Big rise in deaths from "superbug"
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/31/nmrsa31.xml
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